Resources
Here I catalogue several useful resources that I tend to use often (or at least want to have access to from time to time).
Note: I am in the process of converting this page to allow editing with Markdown. Not everything is moved over yet. Until then, see the old page here.
Physics and Math
- arXiv.org - Open access to 403,657 (the number is from when I arbitrarily copied and pasted the description) e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology.
- Google Scholar - Search nearly any academic journal.
- Physical Review Online Archive - Archives from all the APS journals.
- MathWorld - The 'only' resource you need for looking up math concepts.
- Eirc Weisstein's World of Physics - Similar to MathWorld, only with physics.
- HyperPhysics - Another great (though more elementary) physics resource.
- University of Texas Physics Department - My undergraduate physics department.
- Maxima - An excellent GPL'd
computer algebra system.
- Micro Introduction into Maxima - A quick reference for Maxima.
- Maxima Tutorial - A tutorial to using Maxima, including lots of programming examples.
- Numerical Recipes Books On-Line - Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN and Numerical Recipes in C in Postscript and PDF form.
- Falstad Math and Physics Applets - Some excellent applets on math, quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, etc.
- Ubuntu Scientists - Resources for scientists using Ubuntu (or other Linuxes).
- Electromagnetic Waves and Antennas - A freely available book (with inidividual chapters in PDF form).
- Encyclopedia of Laser Physics and Technology
LaTeX
- Kile - A KDE-based IDE for creating LaTeX documents.
- MikTeX - The de facto standard LaTeX implementation for Windows.
- TeXnicCenter - A Windows IDE for creating LaTeX documents.
- Getting to grips with Latex - An excellent introduction to LaTeX.
- Online Tutorials for LaTeX - Some more LaTeX tutorials.
- LaTeX Beamer - A LaTeX style class for creating presentations. Check out the themes gallery.
- LaTeX Letter Format - For those times when you need to actually send a letter, this is how you do it with LaTeX.
- James Bray's Latex Help - Various useful tips with selected topics in LaTeX.
Linux
- Debian - The best Linux distribution out there.
- Ubuntu - A Debian-based distribution that I recommend for most Linux newcomers. Ubuntu has the benefit of being very newbie-friendly on top of being based on Debian.
- apt-get.org - A huge listing of unofficial APT repositories.
- Glade - An interface designer for GNOME/GTK+ applications.
- autotut - A guide to using the GNU autotools (autoconf, automake, autoheader).
- Gnuplot
Tutorial
- A very brief (but still useful) introduction to using Gnuplot.
- Gnuplot Not So Frequently Asked Questions - An 'incredible' overview of gnuplot.
- Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide - Everything you ever needed to know about Bash scripting.
- Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - Information what everything in / on your Linux system actually means.
- Sawfish - A highly configurable window manager for X.
